explaining space?? time and the texture of reality</br></br>Product Description</br></br>From Brian Greene?? one of the world??s leading physicists and author the Pulitzer Prize finalist <i>The Elegant Universe</i>?? comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way.<br><br>Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mys"us of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a direction? Could the universe exist without space and time? Can we travel to the past? Greene has set himself a daunting task: to explain non-intuitive?? mathematical concepts like String Theory?? the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?? and Inflationary Cosmology with analogies drawn from common experience. From Newton??s unchanging realm in which space and time are absolute?? to Einstein??s fluid conception of spacetime?? to quantum mechanics?? entangled arena where vastly distant objects can instantaneously coordinate their behavior?? Greene takes us all?? regardless of our scientific backgrounds?? on an irresistible and revelatory journey to the new layers of reality that modern physics has discovered lying just beneath the surface of our everyday world.</br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br>As a boy?? Brian Greene read Albert Camus' <I>The Myth of Sisyphus</I> and was transformed. Camus?? in Greene's paraphrase?? insisted that the hero triumphs "ng everything beyond immediate experience." After wrestling with this idea?? however?? Greene rejected Camus and realized that his true idols were physicists; scientists who struggled " assess life and to experience the universe at all possible levels?? not just those that happened to be accessible to our frail human senses."His driving question in <I>The Fabric of the Cosmos</I>?? then?? is fundamental: "at <I>is</I> reality?" Over sixteen chapters?? he traces the evolving human understanding of the substrate of the universe?? from classical physics to ten-dimensional M-Theory.<p> Assuming an audience of non-specialists?? Greene has set himself a daunting task: to explain non-intuitive?? mathematical concepts like String Theory?? the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?? and Inflationary Cosmology with analogies drawn from common experience. For the most part?? he succeeds. His language reflects a deep passion for science and a gift for translating concepts into poetic images. When explaining?? for example?? the inability to see the higher dimensions inherent in string theory?? Greene writes: "ee them because of the <I>way</I> we see??like an ant